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Re: GRIPE about XRN 6.9 (for X11R4)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Sun Jun 24 13:01:54 1990
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 90 01:42:48 -0400
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: hindmost@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Brian R. Murphy's message of Sat, 23 Jun 90 23:34:23 -0400,
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: hindmost@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 90 23:34:23 -0400
Why does xrn take up so much memory?
Here I am, just reading a little news,
and it's taking up 3.9M of my memory (on a poor little vs2000).
I understand the X bloat problem, but this is completely ridiculous.
You could fit almost 4 emacses into that much space.
It makes it impossible to read news while I'm using latex.
:-(
This is why X toolkit programs are evil. :-) Seriously, if you want
something small, use rrn instead of xrn. On the other hand, not being
able to use both xrn and latex at the same time could be construed as a
feature, especially if you're working on a thesis or something. :-)
- Ted
